Opened my email just now to learn THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE received enthusiastic final board approval — it will officially be in the world soon(ish)!!!!!!! @nathankhensley.bsky.social is the best co-editor. Can’t wait for these brilliant, gorgeous, sometimes gutting essays to appear in print.

This fantastic issue of Amodern, "Body and/as Procedure," is now live! Edited by @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social and Jane Malcolm. I wrote about the poetics of sleep and rest in Lyn Hejinian and Jackie Wang. Check it out here ... amodern.net/issues/amode...

The cuts to the liberal arts at WVU, especially those to the languages, will tell WV’s many rural, working-class, or first-generation college students not to get ideas above their station.

3. The administration is at fault for treating this university like one more extractive industry in West Virginia. They have hollowed out this place and left it collapsing and poisoned behind them -- the same legacy as this beautiful state's mountains.

Bsky, hello! Thanks for having me! Exciting news-I'm happy to share this opportunity for poets & poet-activists (applications due Sept. 5) @ the UD Library, Museums & Press! Come explore the incredible collections & lead a workshop on poetry & activism! library.udel.edu/poetry-as-ac...

Please share and/or come be my colleague! https://careers.insidehighered.com/job/2959170/assistant-professor-of-indigenous-environmental-studies/

Three permanent posts (cluster hire) in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex, including one in American History pre-1900: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/jobs/lecturers-mah Closing date: 17 September 2023, post to commence January 2024.